Durability Enhancement of Intermetallics Electrocatalysts via N-anchor Effect for Fuel Cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Xiang ^a   An, Li ^b   Chen, Xin ^c   Zhang, Nanlin ^b   Xia, Dingguo ^b   Huang, Weifeng ^d   Chu, Wangsheng ^d   Wu, Ziyu ^d  

^a GENERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NONFERROUS METALS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

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EID: 84888143753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03234     Document Type: Article

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